November 06, 2009
Ya'll are not going to believe this. I'm still shocked while I'm writing this:
I went for my post surgical appt for my LAP and guess what I was told? The doctor started the conversation off by saying "you are one lucky woman" Of course I was wondering why I was so lucky. She goes on to tell me that they found an ectoptic pregnany in my tube after examining the tube from my recent LAP Surgery. For those of you who may not know..my husband has no sperm, therefore, it was impossible for this to be a "recent pregnancy". Also, for those of you who don't know, I decided to go to another Fertility Clinic after my 5th IUI cycle since I sincerely felt that they (my old clinic) just didn't care about my fertility. There is no doubt that this tubal pregnancy was a result from the 3rd IUI Cycle that I had where my HCG levels started off slowly, and only got to around 12,000 before decreasing. They were able to see a sac in my uterus, but determined it was a blighted ovum because there was not fetus or sac. I am know learning that it was possibly a "PSEDUO SAC" which is a fake sac that some ectoptic pregnancies can produce. On May 20th of this year (my IUI was on March 21, 09) I had severe..and I mean severe pain in my left and only tube at that time, it was so severe that I ended up in the ER..they checked me via ultrasound and determined that it may be one of my fibroids "flaring" up which didn't make sense to me since they had not hurt like that in the past. They also ruled out an ectoptic, and indicated that an ectoptic would have burst by now. My RE at the time caught wind that I went to the ER with pain on my left side, and advised me to come in ASAP to see him so they could do another ultrasound to rule out an ectoptic...they found nothing. So of course, at this point, I already knew that I was miscarrying since my beta levels had already started to drop. We had our 4th and 5th IUI cyles about 2 months after that and both were BFN's. Today, I found out the reason those particular cycles were BFN's..IT'S BECAUSE MY DARN TUBE WAS BLOCKED AS A RESULT OF AN ECTOPTIC. My new RE told me that the HSG report I did in December 2008 before starting my IUI's in Jan of this year showed a "free spill" of the tube which is not something you will get with an ectoptic since your tube is automatically blocked with an ectoptic. I feel very blessed but yet ticked off at the same time. How could I go around with an ectoptic from March to October and NO ONE notice it?? I am indeed lucky that my tube did not burst, and cause my death due to internal bleeding. Another interesting thing is that my HCG levels went down to 0 although I had an ectoptic, the doctor indicated that they have never seen that before. Plus, the new RE did an HCG before my LAP since it is protocl beforing performing surgery and it too was negative (additional evidence that this was not a recent pregnancy). I just hate that we wasted money on are 4th and 5th IUI Cycles. I'm thinking about calling the Office Manager of the Old RE's office and asking for a refund for those cycles. One of the reasons why is because they were responsible for my care, and most importantly, they were the FIRST people to indicate to me that I may have a tubal because my hcG LEVELS were slow rising...but they just dropped the darn ball.
I went for my post surgical appt for my LAP and guess what I was told? The doctor started the conversation off by saying "you are one lucky woman" Of course I was wondering why I was so lucky. She goes on to tell me that they found an ectoptic pregnany in my tube after examining the tube from my recent LAP Surgery. For those of you who may not know..my husband has no sperm, therefore, it was impossible for this to be a "recent pregnancy". Also, for those of you who don't know, I decided to go to another Fertility Clinic after my 5th IUI cycle since I sincerely felt that they (my old clinic) just didn't care about my fertility. There is no doubt that this tubal pregnancy was a result from the 3rd IUI Cycle that I had where my HCG levels started off slowly, and only got to around 12,000 before decreasing. They were able to see a sac in my uterus, but determined it was a blighted ovum because there was not fetus or sac. I am know learning that it was possibly a "PSEDUO SAC" which is a fake sac that some ectoptic pregnancies can produce. On May 20th of this year (my IUI was on March 21, 09) I had severe..and I mean severe pain in my left and only tube at that time, it was so severe that I ended up in the ER..they checked me via ultrasound and determined that it may be one of my fibroids "flaring" up which didn't make sense to me since they had not hurt like that in the past. They also ruled out an ectoptic, and indicated that an ectoptic would have burst by now. My RE at the time caught wind that I went to the ER with pain on my left side, and advised me to come in ASAP to see him so they could do another ultrasound to rule out an ectoptic...they found nothing. So of course, at this point, I already knew that I was miscarrying since my beta levels had already started to drop. We had our 4th and 5th IUI cyles about 2 months after that and both were BFN's. Today, I found out the reason those particular cycles were BFN's..IT'S BECAUSE MY DARN TUBE WAS BLOCKED AS A RESULT OF AN ECTOPTIC. My new RE told me that the HSG report I did in December 2008 before starting my IUI's in Jan of this year showed a "free spill" of the tube which is not something you will get with an ectoptic since your tube is automatically blocked with an ectoptic. I feel very blessed but yet ticked off at the same time. How could I go around with an ectoptic from March to October and NO ONE notice it?? I am indeed lucky that my tube did not burst, and cause my death due to internal bleeding. Another interesting thing is that my HCG levels went down to 0 although I had an ectoptic, the doctor indicated that they have never seen that before. Plus, the new RE did an HCG before my LAP since it is protocl beforing performing surgery and it too was negative (additional evidence that this was not a recent pregnancy). I just hate that we wasted money on are 4th and 5th IUI Cycles. I'm thinking about calling the Office Manager of the Old RE's office and asking for a refund for those cycles. One of the reasons why is because they were responsible for my care, and most importantly, they were the FIRST people to indicate to me that I may have a tubal because my hcG LEVELS were slow rising...but they just dropped the darn ball.
November 06, 2009